Death in the Jungle
With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous ... [... more]
Random House |
Loung Ung from HarperCollins Publishers
Loung Ung is a national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World, a program of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. She is the author of Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind, and she ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Jim Thomas
Jim Thomas is owner and director emeritus of Common Ground Seminars. He is a graduate of UCLA and the Georgetown University Law Center, and served as a U.S. Air Force helicopter rescue pilot in Vietnam, receiving the distinguished Flying Cross. ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Larry Berman
Larry Berman is a professor of political science at the University of California, Davis, and the author of three well-received books on Vietnam, including No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam. He made more than a dozen ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Swinging Sixties 2009 Wall Calendar
The Swinging Sixties Wall Calendar: The Swinging Sixties comes from a Time Magazine quote about London in 1966, which summed up the new, turbulent, subversive youth culture that was being expressed through music, film, and fashion. Civil Rights, the [... more]
Calendar Club CA |
Xin Loi, Viet Nam
No one in Vietnam had to tell door gunner and gunship crew chief Al Sever that the odds didn't look good. He volunteered for the job well aware that hanging out of slow-moving choppers over hot LZs blazing with enemy fire was not conducive to a ... [... more]
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Tom Marshall
Tom Marshall enlisted in the United States Army in the Warrant Officer Rotary Wing Pilot course in 1969. During his one-year tour in Vietnam, he received the Bronze Star for meritorious service after two months of action with the 4th Infantry ... [... more]
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Charles Melson
This volume provides an in-depth look at the experience of the ordinary US marine 'grunt' in Vietnam. Organisation of the corps, weaponry, equipment, uniforms, training and medical arrangements are all discussed. However, where this book differs ... [... more]
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Oscar Gilbert
By 1960, following Korea, tanks and their crews had proved themselves to be a fundamental part of the Marine Corps' combined arms team. When the Marines were ordered to Vietnam in 1965, they took their tanks with them. This book explores this ... [... more]
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Fred Seligson
This practical manual draws on the teachings of Queen Tae Jin in 12th-century B.C. China. Women in China, Vietnam, Japan, and Korea still follow these rules of pregnancy to benefit the physical health, emotional stability, and spiritual nature of ... [... more]
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Christopher Ronnau
Chris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler's checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the ... [... more]
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Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in Fiction for So wrote the New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, In this wildly funny, brilliantly inventive novel, Tim O'Brien has ... [... more]
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